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It's considered that the first European who saw Florida was John and Sebastian Cabot, who in 1498 has discovered Cape Florida Key Biscayne in Miami. At that time, 100 thousand inhabitants of the land create several different tribes. Timcua to north Florida, a kiss on the south west around Lake Okeechobee, Apalachee in Tequesta along the Panhandle and South-east coast.
The arrival of the French hugenot in the year 1562 forced the Spaniards to devote more effort to the settlement. Three years later, Petro Menendez de Aviles up the St.. Augustine - the oldest existing European settlement on the continent. in the year 1586 St. Augustine was ruined British artillery attack by the sea under the command of Francis Drake. Bloody conflict for control of North America, which has later been resolved when the British over Havana - a key property of Spain, to name it to Florida on which Spanish August parting to regain Havana. Until then, the ethnic inhabitants of Florida had been depopulated by the disease, a Florida Indian population slowly becomes a mixture of different tribes coming from the west, known under the name seminolow that are usually left alone.
After gaining independence by the Americas and Spain called Florida, United States started to consider the control of the state. In 1814 years the American general Andrew Jackson went to the south killing hundreds of Indians, giving the first beginnings of the war on Saminolami. Under the pretext of pacyikacji Seminolow was held in August trying to break into the region. Spain formally gave Florida to the United States in 1819. Jackson was sworn as the first American governor in Florida, a Tallahassee Osrodek peeled for the new administration. Jedynascie years later under the Indian Removal Act of (the act of removing the Indians), all Native Americans from the South were to be transferred to reserves in the Middle East. Most Seminolow was determined to remain on their lands, and so the second war broke out with Seminolami, in which the Indians were zepchnieci for Everglades land far from fertile pol Central Florida, where he finally agreed to stay.
Florida State gained 3 March 1845 year, which coincided with a period of prosperity due to the development of the iron rail. Major contribution as a member of Florida Konfedereacji during the Civil War was the supply of food. This gave a foretaste of the post-war economic role of the state after the re-incorporation into the Union. When players from the north gieldowi invest in Florida, newspapers around the country wychwalaly health properties of its climate. This early promotion of Florida as a tourist region, induced many of the rich to spend the winter here. Henry Flagrer opened a few luxury homes in the north-east coast lines and extended his Florida East Coast Railway Railroad to the south, thus contributing to the emergence of towns such as Palm Beach. Hanry planda railway lines led to his Tampa, transforming them in the flourishing port city. Florida climate allows winter cultivation of citrus fruits, which were sold in the north, the state was also a significant producer of beef. After the First World War everyone wanted to have their kawalek Florida and rented trains specially imported thousands who are willing to buy the land, but most of these transactions existed on paper. The year 1926 started plajtowac banks, a great crash on Wall Street millionaires fortunes undermined, the past investments have allowed states to develop.
Florida survived World War II. Thousands troopships arrived to guard the coast. Empty hotels serve as a barracks and soldiers knew the taste of Florida, prompting many of them to return after the war. In the mid 60-tenths of State supported the administration Disney Corporation in the transformation of large piece of Central Florida in the Walt Disney World, the largest theme parks ever existed. His huge financial success allowed Florida to find the place for ever between the national tourism market: every fifth person among those in which 12 million people of this state, directly or indirectly depend on the tourism industry.
However, this optimistic facade hides a lot of problems. Discrepancy between the relative liberalism of large cities and the traditional conservatism of rural areas. Bible Belt keep growing: when his Miami promotes multiculturalism, Ku Klux Klan is carrying picnics in the Panhandle. Racial problems are still serious and the voltage appearing on different lines of Anglo-Americans and nowobogackimi Kubanczykami, black and white, Murzynami and Latynosami, the police and the |
